Books - "history"
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The Guardian: Volume the First
Nos. 1-82. Demy 8vo, pp. [2] + iv + 571; full leather boards, gilt panel spine with red label; marbled eps, illus. to tp; VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to boards; heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with heavy chipping; leather to boards peeling from extrems; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; heavy creasing, tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; front & rear pastedown loose, watepaper underneath visible; lg tear to ffep at gutter; lg tearing to centre of flyleaf opp. tp ; moderate to heavy tanning, soiling & foxing throughout; lg tearing to centre of pp. 271-2; major segment to pp. 273-4 torn out; moderate tearing to centre of pp. 563-4, repaired with tape; moderate tear to fore edge; moderate cracking to central gutters).
PUBLISHER: Messrs. Rivington, Longman, White, Law, Johnson, Nichols, Dilly, Robinson, Cadell, R. Baldwin, Goldsmith, Otridge, Bew, Hayes, Wilkie, and Lowndes 1789
KEYWORDS: 18th eighteenth century periodical Richard Steele Joseph Addison essays journalism literature literary history
Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995
Super 8vo, pp. xii + 869; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (moderate creasing, scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to tp; highlighting throughout).
PUBLISHER: University Press of America 2005
KEYWORDS: Haiti Haitian orthography history anthropology Robert Debs Nancy Gordon Heinl
Sodomy in early modern Europe
Super 8vo, pp. x + 173; illus. light card covers; illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 2002
KEYWORDS: Tom Betteridge homosexuality sodomy crime crimes early modern Europe social history
Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
Super 8vo, pp. xviii + 478; illus. light card covers; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to prelims & terminals;
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: Alain Corbin 19th nineteenth century sexuality prostitution social history
Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968
Ex-library. 8vo, pp. xii + 317; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; library markings to front cover, spine, top pg edge, eps & tp verso; light tanning throughout).
PUBLISHER: Westview Press 1997
KEYWORDS: James T Sears 20th century lesbian gay social history
Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Politics
Super 8vo, pp. x + 281; illus. light card covers; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; light annotations in pencil throughout).
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2004
KEYWORDS: United States of America American poetry literatyre history criticism Cold War politics political masculinity homosexuality
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Sissent
Super 8vo, pp. xvi + 392; red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2001
KEYWORDS: Soviet Union Russia Russian social history homosexuality gay legality laws
Revival of Paganism
Ex-library. Super 8vo, pp. vi + 360; red buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; library markings to eps; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with heavy chipping & some loss; moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: B. Herder Book Co. 1950
KEYWORDS: Gustave Combes philosophy history religion religious Christianity Christian pagan paganism
Government Versus Homosexuals
Super 8vo, unpaginated; orange cl boards, spine lettered in white, boards lettered in red; facsims., photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Arno Press 1975
KEYWORDS: The Arno Series on Homosexuality homosexual government legality laws social history
The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, c. 1901
8vo, pp. xii + 311; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2003
KEYWORDS: sexuality sex Mexico Mexican social history 20th century
Missions-Bilder: Neuseeland
Text in German. Post 8vo, pp. 112; brown cl boards, black label to spine lettered in gilt; illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: J. F. Steinkopf 1864
KEYWORDS: German language 19th century New Zealand mission missionary missionaries history
The Last Tsar & Tsarina
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1977
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian royal family Tsar Nicholas II Romanovs Romanov history biography biographies
A Weird Region: New Zealand Lakes, Terraces, Geysers and Volcanoes Illustrated (Print on Demand Facsimile Reprint)
PRINT ON DEMAND FACSIMILE REPRINT, imperial octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: BLN (Print on Demand reprint)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology landscapes natural history lakes terraces geysers volcanoes historical
Kawarau Gold
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs (Printer) 1962
KEYWORDS: New Zealand golddiggers gold mining miners Kawarau Otago history
Gregorys - Camerons: Printers to Dunedin: 125 Years of the Family in New Zealand (Second Edition)
Octavo stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: None Stated (1999)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history early settlers pioneers printing printers business Gregorys Camerons
Architecture: Man in Possession of His Earth: Frank Lloyd Wright
Lg quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Macdonald & Co 1963
KEYWORDS: architecture architects Frank Lloyd Wright buildings design biography biographies history
Historical Racing Records, and Inauguration of the Racing and Trotting Clubs in Otago and Southland
Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Evening Star Company (Printer) 1949
KEYWORDS: New Zealand horse racing equine records Otago Southland clubs history historical
The Journals of Ernest George Fenton Hall
Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Worldwide Evangelization Crusade et al 1930
KEYWORDS: journals diaries Ernest George Fenton Hall history historical missionaries pioneers
Man Crowned King: The Divine Drama Unfolds
Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books 1974
KEYWORDS: Edgar Cayce psychics clairvoyance clairvoyants history historical events old testament religion religious
Swedenborg: Life and Teaching
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pillar Books / Swedenborg Foundation Inc. 1976
KEYWORDS: Emanuel Swedenborg natural science history philosophy biography biographies